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Thursday, October 2, 2008 12:00 AM

Bill Maher vs. the "talking snake"

The HBO host and comedian talks about "Religulous," his onslaught against the religious idiocy that threatens to deliver America to Sarah Palin and her fellow "space god" worshipers.

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  • Thursday, October 2, 2008 01:26 PM

    Mark Hughes Cobb

    I don't buy the supernatural, but the spiritual? That's fairly common and has been for millenia. Countless books have been written on the subject in all sorts of languages from all over the globe by people who adhere to many different religions. The problem is that, in order to find it you have to seek it, and in a very humble, devoted and consistent way. I don't know who I find the more astonishing, atheists who swear there is no god without ever doing the spiritual work that everyone who's ever found god says you have to do, or phonies like Bush who claim to have found god one morning during a particularly bad hangover.

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